A Honeypot Experiment Shows How Long It Takes To Get Hacked

Written by hbvanveen | Published 2021/02/24
Tech Story Tags: cyber-security-awareness | security | honeypot | hacking | ssh | defense | password-security | cyber-defense-system

TLDR A Honeypot Experiment Shows How long will it take before such a system will be compromised? To find out, I deployed the Cowrie SSH honeypot on an Amazon EC2 instance, with the mocked ssh service on port 2222 directly reachable from the Internet. The amount of connection attempts was over 3,600 during these five days, originating from 37 different source addresses. The map below shows the location of the source addresses, according to ipstack. Several commonly used username/password combinations are granting access.via the TL;DR App
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Written by hbvanveen | Passionate about engineering enterprise grade IT systems and the development teams doing that
Published by HackerNoon on 2021/02/24
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